This is Spoken Gospel.

We’re dedicated to seeing
Jesus in all of scripture.

In each episode, we see what’s
happening in a Biblical text

and how it sheds light
on Jesus and his gospel.

Let’s jump in.

Jesus spends his last night on earth
preparing his disciples for his death.

And he does it over a Passover meal.

The Passover celebrated God’s
rescue of Israel out of Egypt.

For thousands of years the
Israelites ate lamb and bread

and drank wine as reminders
of God’s rescue from Pharoah.

But Jesus tells his disciples that these
symbols no longer point back,
but forward to him.

Like the bread was broken,
Jesus will be broken.

Like the lamb was sacrificed,
Jesus will be sacrificed.

And like the wine was poured
out, Jesus’ blood will be spilled.

Jesus says this will all
happen because of a traitor.

The disciples start fighting about which
of them is most likely to betray Jesus,

and their argument devolves into a
contest about who is the greatest disciple.

Jesus rebukes them.

He tells them that the
greatest is the least.

The last is the first.

Greatness is not gained by how many
serve them but how many they serve.

Jesus then warns them that following
him is about to get much more difficult.

A demonic power has overtaken
Judas and is hunting Peter.

Jesus prophesies Peter
will deny him three times.

Jesus is warning them that the peaceful
days and ways of Jesus’ ministry are over.

The disciples misunderstand Jesus
and think this means fighting.

Jesus tells them to drop it.

But when Judas arrives to betray Jesus, one of
them cuts off the ear of the high priest’s servant.

Jesus rebukes them again and
heals his accuser as they arrest him.

Peter follows Jesus to the high priest’s
house, only to deny knowing Jesus three times.

Each of Jesus’ prophecies comes true.

Judas betrays him.

He is arrested like a transgressor
of Roman and Jewish law.

Peter denies him three times.

Ironically, the men who arrested Jesus blindfold him and
mock him as a prophet, asking him who’s beating him.

Jesus is not just a prophet,
but the prophesied one.

Jesus secures a final Exodus that saves Israel
from death and transgression by becoming the

Passover lamb and
becoming a transgressor for us.

Because Jesus is willing to have his blood
poured out like wine and his body torn like

bread, death passes over us like it
did for Israel in Egypt.

Isaiah 53:12 says that Jesus “bore the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.”

This is why Jesus prayed over
Peter, who denied him three times.

It’s why Jesus forgave the soldiers who
nailed him to the cross, and why he promised

the thief hanging next to him
that he would enter paradise.

Jesus is the prophesied Passover lamb who
becomes like a transgressor and criminal.

His death in our place has uniquely
qualified him to pray for us and save us.

May the Holy Spirit open your eyes to see the God
who promised full and final deliverance for his people.

And may you see Jesus, who was
numbered among the transgressors

so that through his sacrifice, sin
and death might pass over us.